Improvement in folding stools



E. MATTESON. Folding-Stools.

No. 197,558. Patented Nov. 27, I877.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ELISHA MATTESON, or NORWICH, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN FOLDING STOOLS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 197,558, dated November 27, 1877;

May 7, 1877.

application filed marked thereon, similar letters indicating corresponding parts in different figures.

My invention relates to a folding portable seat or stool and in order to make and use my invention, I will describe its construction and operation, referring to the annexed drawing as forming part of my specification.

Figure 1 is a vertical View of my stool when in position for use. Fig. 2 is a view of the seat, showing the under side of the same when detached. Fig. 3 is a View showing the stool folded up for carrying.

A, Fig. 1, is the pedestal; B, the seat; 0 C O, the legs, which are attached to the pedestal by butts d d d. The feet of the legs are held in position, when in use, by the wire hooks c e, by being attached to one leg by means of a screw or otherwise, and hooking into screweyes ff on the opposite legs.

D, Fig. 2, is the seat detached, showing a plate, E, screwed upon the under side, having' a stem, F, with a groove turned around it near the end, into which a set-screw, g, enters, to prevent the seat from being removed when in use, and which enters into a hole in the upper end of the pedestal, on which it rests and revolves.

Fig. 3 is a view of the seat folded into small space for convenience of carrying.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is the following:

A camp-stool or portable seat having three legs hinged to a pedestal, which is provided with a movable seat, secured in positionby a set-screw, and with braces for holding the legs in position, the whole being constructed so as to be folded together, in the gnanner and for the purpose shown and described.

In testimony hereof I have hereunto afiixed my name this 2d day of May, A. D. 1877.

ELISHA MATTESON.

Witnesses:

LYMAN GOULD, J. M. THAYER. 

